Garment-form.



E. T. PALMENBERG.

GARMENT FORM.

APPLIOATION FILED DEC. 6, 1913.

Patented June 2, 1914.

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EMIL THEODORE PALMENBERG 0E JRTEW YQRK, N. Y.

GARMENT-FORTH.

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fii'iecification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 2. third.

Application filed December 6, 1513. Serialllo. 805,041,

To aZZ whom may, concern Be it known that T, EMIL T. PAL-MENBERG, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of the city of New York, borough of Man hattan, in the county and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved GarmentEorm, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The invention relates to apparel apparatus, and its object is to provide a new and improved garment form arranged to provide a cushion between the body and the stand with a View to prevent the lower end. of the body from striking the base of the stand to the detriment of the body in case the fastening device for fastening the body to the stand is loosened.

A further object of the invention is to locate the fastening device outside of the form body to permit the user to readily manipulate the fastening device for fastening the body in the desired adjusted posi tion on the stand.

In order to accomplish the desired result use is made of a cushioning device interposed between the body and the supporting stand to limit the downward movement of the form and to cushion the form on the latter sliding down into lowermost position.

A practical embodiment of the invention is represented in the accompanying drawings forming a part of this specification, in which. similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the views.

Figure 1 is a side elevation of the display or dress form, parts being shown in section; Fig. 2 is an enlarged sectional side elevation of the cushioning device; and Fig. 3 is a side elevation of a modification of the garment form.

The garment form in its general construetion consists of a stand A and form body B. The'stand A is provided with a suitably constructed base A from which rises a post A on which is slidably mounted a tube B forming part of the body B and arranged centrally thereon. In the upper end of the tube B is held a coiled spring C adapted to rest on the upper end of the post A at the time the body B is in lowermost position on the stand. The body 13 consists of the usual torso portion B and a skirt portion B usually made of wires so as to accommodate the skirt of the garment to be fitted on the form. The tube B extends a distance below the bottom of the skirt portion B and in this lower end of the tube l3 screws a fastoning screw D adapted to enga 'e the post A to securely hold the body B in the raised adjusted position.

It is understood that the user of the garment iorm frequently adjusts the form body B in an up and down direction according to the length oi. the garment fitted on the form body B and then slides the body l3 upward and downward until the desired position is reached, after which the fastening screw D is screwed up to securely fasten the body B in. the adjusted position. It will be noticed that in garment forms as heretofore constructed the tube 1% did not extend below the skirt portion and the fastening screw D was located within the skirt portion and hence the user had to reach in between the wires of the skirt form in order to manipulate this fastening screw D. By extending the tube B below the skirt portion and mounting the screw D in the lower end of the tube B, the user has ready access to the fastening screw to unscrew or screw up the same for the purpose above mentioned.

In practice, the stand A, term B and the spring C are so arranged and proportioned. that when the screw D is loosened and the form body B slides downward into lowermost position then the lower end of the spring C is seated on the upper end of the post A and the bottom of the skirt portion B of the form body B is a distance above the base A so that the bottom of the skirt portion 13 is not liable to strike the base A that on such accidental dropping of the form body B is accidentally dropped after the screw D is unscrewed. in forms as hereto fore constructed. it has frequently happened that on such accidental dropping of the form body B the bottom of the skirt portion B struck the base A or the foot of the user bearing on the base, and as the form is of considerable weight it is evident that the form is liable to be injured on striking the base and the users foot is liable to be in jured on being clamped between the base A and the bottom of the skirt portion B in practice, the tube B passes through a bottom board l3 of the portion B and abuts against the neck block B, as plainly shown in Fig. 1. An adjustable collar E is held on the tube B to engage the under side of the bottom board B and in the upper end of the tube B is secured a rod F extending through the neck block 3'. The upper end of the rod 13 is threaded and on it screws a nut F abutting against the top of the neck block B to securely fasten the tube B in position on the portion B of the form body B. The upper end of the spring G is preferably provided with a loop C through which extends a pin Gr held on the tube B to suspend the spring G in the upper end of the tube B directly below the head F 01' the rod F, as plainly shown in Figs. 1 and 2.

In the modified form shown in Fig. 3 a coil spring 0 is held on the lower end of the post A and the bottom of this spring G rests on the base A of the stand. The upper end of the spring C is adapted to be engaged by the lower end of the tube 13 whenever the form body B is allowed to slide down into lowermost position. It will be noticed that in this case the spring forms a cushion between the stand and the form body, the same as above described in reference to the construction disclosed in Figs. 1 and 2, but in this case the spring is exposed while in the form shown in Figs. 1 and 2 the spring is concealed and protected within the tube B.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent:

1. In a garment form, the combination of a stand having a base and a post rising therefrom, a form body provided with a tube slidable up and down on the said post, and a cushioning spring held in the upper end of the said tube and adapted to rest on the up per end of the said post on the form body reaching a lowermost position, the said parts being so proportioned one relative to the other that the lower end of the form body is a distance above the base at the time the form body reaches a lowermost position.

2. In a garment form, the combination with a stand having a base and a post rising therefrom, of a form body, a tube secured in the neck portion of the form body and extending down below the lower edge of the same, said tube sliding on the post of the stand and provided with means at its lower end for securing it to the post, and a spring in the upper end of the tube and adapted to engage the upper end of the post.

3. A garment form, comprising a body having a neck block, a tube having a threaded rod secured in its upper end and extending out through the neck block of the form, a nut on the projecting end of the rod, a spring secured in the upper end of the tube, a bottom board in the body and through which the tube extends a collar on the tube and abutting against the said bottom board, and a thumb screw in the lower end of the tube below the lower end of the body.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

EMIL THEODORE PALMENBERG.

Witnesses:

LOUIS E. BRIGHT, (line. A. BUSCHMAN.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents.

Washington, D. 0. 

